Zombie soldiers demand impeachment!
Call me a liberal pinko commie, but Homecoming, Joe Dante's installment of Showtime's Masters of Horror anthology, sounds amazing. Check the premise, courtesy of the Village Voice's Dennis Lim: "In an election year, dead veterans of the current conflict crawl out of
their graves and stagger single-mindedly to voting booths so they can
eject the president who sent them to fight a war sold on "horseshit and
elbow grease.""I'll just give you a second to process that. I know I needed one.
Lim, who goes on to call Homecoming "easily one of the most important political films of the Bush II era", saw the hour-long film at the Turin Film Festival, where it was met with a five-minute ovation. Dante, who spoke at the festival, has no intention of playing coy about his aims. "If you're going to code the message, which is the way horror movies have always done it, that's fine, but it's not going to reach an audience like a movie that's overt, and this is not exactly subtle," the director says.
Apparently not - though no one utters a certain four-letter proper name starting with B, based on Lim's description, Homecoming tosses thinly-veiled versions of Ann Coulter, Karl Rove, and Cindy Sheehan into the mix. Not all of it was intentional. "It was only when we started shooting that Cindy Sheehan emerged," Dante told Lim. "It was weird, because everybody said [of the war mother character], 'Oh, you based that on Cindy Sheehan!' It was just a coincidence, but I guess it was inevitable that somebody like that would show up."
The whole article is worth a read, so hop to it. Meanwhile, I'll sit here and mope over the fact that I do not have Showtime and thus, will not be able to watch this on Friday night.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
11-30-2005 @ 7:17PM
Peter Nellhaus said...
Hopefully someone will record a copy (for personal home use only) for you. I'd invite you and Martha to my place to see "Homecoming" but I live in Miami Beach. If you were here this weekend though, you could see Guy Maddin's "Cowards Bend at the Knees" presented as a peep show at the Miami Beach Cinematheque.
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11-30-2005 @ 9:26PM
Targ8ter said...
Well, it's true that most votes cast by the recently deceased go to Democratic candidates and causes, but that's generally with the aid of the living.
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11-30-2005 @ 10:07PM
Texas Jack said...
Five minute ovation? Uhhhhhh......no.
Harldy analogous to our present day war. Oddly enough, the troops actually support creating a terrorist magnet somewhere other than the U.S.
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12-04-2005 @ 6:02PM
Horace gutman said...
What a disgrace the American traitor Left is.
The Left in this country will stop at nothing to undermine America even going to the extent of using the images of dead soldiers to further their own, selfish political agenda.
The Left has no respect or concern for the welfare of America and need to be placed in detention camps for the duration of the war.
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12-04-2005 @ 1:53PM
Michael Dunn said...
This is the most disgusting show I have ever seen. I am unaffiliated with the republican party, however this piece of garbage reaffirmed my disdain for liberals. The depths to which they are willing to go far exceed that which they show of their conservative counterparts. Only liberal sliminess is real. I am however grateful that Showtime elected to show this shit during their free weekend so I can choose not to support their network. If I did pay them it would be to entertain me, not politically indoctrinate me and insult my intelligence.
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12-04-2005 @ 2:46AM
Michael Dunn said...
This is the most disgusting show I have ever seen. I am unaffiliated with the republican party, however this piece of garbage reaffirmed my disdain for liberals. The depths to which they are willing to go far exceed that which they show of their conservative counterparts. Only liberal sliminess is real. I am however grateful that Showtime elected to show this shit during their free weekend so I can choose not to support their network. If I did pay them it would be to entertain me, not politically indoctrinate me and insult my intelligence.
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12-04-2005 @ 10:54AM
Finished.Law.School said...
Sounds like more liberals whining about a world they do not understand...
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12-04-2005 @ 10:14AM
terry said...
Im always fascinated by comments from with the US. People and opinions are quickly pigeonholed to either conservative/liberal or republican/democrat, there appear to be little opportunity for individual options. A lack of critical analysis results as the pigeonholing tars the person/opinion with enormous amounts of baggage unrelated to the issue.
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